Chapters 45 & 47 (Copland & Bernstein) - Enjoyment of Music

Question 1

Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts:

Accepted Answer

a wedding in the Appalachians

Question 2

Bernstein's West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets & Montagues to a feud between:

Accepted Answer

the Jets and the Sharks

Question 3

Which is NOT a ballet by Aaron Copland?

Accepted Answer

Fancy Free

Question 4

What is the form of Copland's Appalachian Spring, Section 7?

Accepted Answer

theme and variations

Question 5

Which famous choreographer is responsible for the dance sequences in West Side Story?

Accepted Answer

Jerome Robbins

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of Bernstein's West Side Story?

Accepted Answer

It has a happy ending.

Question 7

The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring comes from the ________ tradition.

Accepted Answer

Shaker

Question 8

Both Copland and Bernstein composed film music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What gives the dance sequences from West Side Story a Latin-American character?

Accepted Answer

both of these

Question 10

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

Accepted Answer

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Question 11

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

Accepted Answer

Stephen Sondheim

Question 12

With whom did Aaron Copland collaborate in his work Appalachian Spring?

Accepted Answer

Martha Graham

Question 13

Aaron Copland used early American songs in his work Appalachian Spring.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What is the overall structure of the song "Tonight?"

Accepted Answer

A-A-B-A

Question 15

Where did Copland receive his training in modernist composition?

Accepted Answer

Paris, France

Question 16

Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the:

Accepted Answer

New York Philharmonic

Question 17

American musical theater developed out of the European comic opera or operetta tradition.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in "The Dance at the Gym," is the:

Accepted Answer

mambo

Question 19

In which musical style did Aaron Copland compose?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Questions 19